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Empire : a journey to the remote edges of the British Empire

Title

Empire : a journey to the remote edges of the British Empire / Jon Tonks.

Author

Tonks, Jon

Publication

Stockport, England : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013.
©2013.

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Description

187 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHERS. Jon Tonks spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship. Some 400 rolls of film, 24 flights and 32 days at sea later, the resulting work creates an insight into these distant places that resonate with a sense of Britishness which is remarkably recognisable yet inescapably strange. Tonks has photographed the people, the landscapes and the traces of the past embedded within each territory and through short texts, which combine history and anecdote, he tells the story of these remote and remarkable islands. His motivation is neither political or nostalgic, the images arising primarily from his curiosity about the lives of these distant lands that remain very firmly British.

Alternative Title

Journey to the remote edges of the British Empire

Subject

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

Maps on endpapers.

Contents

St Helena -- Ascension Island -- Tristan da Cunha -- The Falkland Islands.

ISBN

9781907893490
1907893490

OCLC

ocn878789965
SCSB-1824861

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library